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Incoming graduate students and postdocs met with Dartmouth President Phil Hanlon '77 at a reception held at the Hanover Inn, hosted annually by the Dean of the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, F. Jon Kull, and staff from the School office.

As higher education becomes an increasingly global venture students pursuing advanced degrees tend to look further afield for training and resources in their pursuit of academic excellence. According to a PEW report, international students make up more than half the students being awarded advanced degrees in STEM subjects in the USA.

Dr. Shannon Hinsa-Leasure is a microbiologist and an associate professor of biology at Grinnell College. Her lab is studying whether the use of copper alloys in hospitals can reduce the number of bacteria on surfaces, a major source of hospital-acquired infections and the spread of antibiotic resistance genes from hog confinements into the environment. While earning her Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology at Dartmouth, Hinsa was a graduate student in the laboratory of professor George O’Toole. When Hinsa was finishing her B.S.